HONG KONG-CHINA-POLITICS-DEMOCRACY

HONG KONG-CHINA-POLITICS-DEMOCRACY

A man smokes a cigarette near a barricade made by pro-democracy protesters in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong on October 23, 2014. Major intersections in the southern Chinese city have been paralysed by mass rallies demanding free elections for more than three weeks, in one of the biggest challenges to Beijing’s authority since the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of 1989. AFP PHOTO / Philippe Lopez